If you visit Quips & Tips for Healthy Women, you'll find inspirational quotations and life tips to inspire women to pursue and achieve their goals. I've included everyone from Frida Kahlo to Dolly Parton, Shirley Valentine to Suze Orman. I also love writing about contemporary women - the lady next door - who have written books, started businesses, survived setbacks, and excelled at being who they really are.
My dream is to write a book about "women who weren't well-behaved" - and find practical ways to apply their wisdom and adventures to our lives.
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Quotations from some adventurous women in history:
"When they fail, their failure must be a challenge to others.” – Amelia Earhart.
“Until I was 28 I had a kind of buried self who didn’t know she could do anything but make white sauce and diaper babies. I didn’t know I had any creative depth. I was a victim of the American Dream, the bourgeois, middle class dream. All I wanted was a little piece of life, to be married, to have children,” said Anne Sexton. She was a poet and writer who struggled with bipolar disorder for most of her life. “I was trying my damndest to lead a conventional life, for that was how I was brought up, and it was what my husband wanted of me. But one can’t build little white picket fences to keep nightmares out. The surface cracked when I was about 28. I had a psychotic breakdown and tried to kill myself.” She did end up committing suicide.
“Most of us are certainly uncomfortable with, if not terrified of, failure. We think it defines us. It does not,” says Oprah Winfrey. “Like every other experience, failure is defined by our reaction to it. Failures can be God’s little whispers; other times, they are full earthquakes erupting in our lives because we didn’t listen to the whispers. Failure is just a way for our lives to show us that we’re moving in the wrong direction, that we should try something different. It holds no more power than we give it.”
